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package org.wicketstuff.minis.behavior.apanel;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.apache.wicket.Component;

/** Renderer creates wicket markup for a component. */
public interface IComponentRenderer<T extends Component> extends Serializable
{
	/**
	 * Creates wicket markup for a specified component.
	 * 
	 * @param component
	 *            component (generic parameter is used only for convenience of this method
	 *            implementation)
	 * @return wicket markup
	 */
	CharSequence getMarkup(T component);

	/** @return a class of components this renderer can render */
	Class<T> getComponentClass();
}
